The Glass Pearls
Paperback/Fiction 288 pages English Oct 11, 2022
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This sinister tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a forgotten feat of Hitchcockian noir. Nothing is more inviting to disclose your secrets than to be told by others of their own ... London, June 1965. Karl Braun arrives as a lodger in Pimlico: hatless, with a bow-tie, greying hair, slight in build. His new neighbours are intrigued by this cultured German gentleman who works as a piano tuner; many are fellow émigrés, who assume that he, like them, came to England to flee Hitler. That summer, Braun courts a woman, attends classical concerts, buys bacon, dances the twist. But as the newspapers fill with reports of the hunt for Nazi war criminals, his nightmares become increasingly worse ...
- Author:
- Emeric Pressburger
- Publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:
- Oct 11, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 288 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 0571371043
- ISBN-13:
- 9780571371044